PoetryLife 2018

Coffee, Conversation & Lunch: Activism through Poetry

This thought-provoking conversation is especially relevant at this point in our nation’s history. Many of us thought the difficult issues of immigration, underpinned with fairness for the immigrant population, were about to be solved. But those expectations now seem farther away than they have been for decades.
Our two featured poets, Juan Felipe Herrera and Ocean Vuong are uniquely qualified to speak about how poetry can come to bear on this important topic.